To @the lavender fan, well, most, if not all US and European high-tech companies have at least some presence in China...some derive most of their revenue from China...you might not like it but this is the reality...capitalist system is based on going after profits, it has worked pretty well so far but clearly it has its shortcoming, but do you know a better system?...Kris

The "Communist" regime in China is blocking the Internet. You cannot access the websites of Facebook, Google, and many other organizations/companies. Baidu undoubtedly benefits from the blocking. Yet Facebook has no difficulty doing business with Baidu. For capitalists, principles don't matter as long as money is concerned.

It seems to me that up to now everyone was designing their own data center...with this move Facebook is inching forward towards standardization...do we see all major players eventually getting out of the data center design and just buying a standard blueprint from a data center foundry provider? there is nothing in the data center that is Google or Microsoft specific I presume...Kris